Many people genuinely hold society’s goals and values, yet their attitudes do not match what is needed to achieve those goals. What is this idea called?
Correct answer B. The value-stretch hypothesis
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Which of these describes inter-generational mobility?
Correct answer A. When the next generation moves higher than the previous one
When changes in the labour market cause an entire occupational group to rise in the social hierarchy, what kind of mobility is this?
Correct answer A. Structural mobility
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Today more women are entering a wide range of careers and earning their own status. Apart from which traditional route does this give women a ladder of mobility?
Correct answer C. Marriage
What is a group of people linked by blood (consanguinity), marriage (affinity) and living together (co-residence) called?
Correct answer A. Family
What is meant by an open society?
Correct answer C. Allows people to move between levels of the hierarchy
For children, the family is the primary setting for which processes?
Correct answer C. Enculturation and socialisation
Which stratification system has positions that are partly achieved and in which mobility is common?
Correct answer C. Class
Which of these is an example of a total institution?
Correct answer B. A mental hospital
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Increased social mobility comes at a cost. Which of these does it tend to reduce?
Correct answer B. Conformity
Which of the following statements about negotiation in social structure is not correct?
Correct answer D. Negotiation is a macro-level process that does not usually involve interactions between small groups such as families
By the fourth week of term, your class agrees that sociology lecturer Rashid Mukhtar is excellent. He is also a disabled, middle-aged man. For these students, what is his master status?
Correct answer D. Excellent instructor
What is one factor that has helped the dual-income family become more common?
Correct answer B. Shift in the economy of the United States from manufacturing to service industries
The native people of Tasmania, a large island south of Australia, are now extinct. Which functional prerequisite did their society fail to meet?
Correct answer D. Preserve order
Andrew Cherlin and Frank Furstenberg Jr studied styles of grandparenting. What did they find to be the most common style?
Correct answer B. Function as 'specialists in recreational care-giving'
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Sociologically speaking, which of the following counts as a group?
Correct answer A. Members of a hospital's business office
Roughly what proportion of people in the United States who divorce go on to remarry?
Correct answer D. Two-thirds of divorced women
You attend XYZ College and your sociology and history final exams fall on the same morning. Knowing that revising for both at once will lower your grade in one or both, what does this tension within your single role as a student illustrate?
Correct answer A. Role strain
Which of these economic systems is typically found in contemporary societies?
Correct answer B. Socialism
Which three basic sources of power exist within any political system?
Correct answer B. Force, influence and authority